black fridayDon’t get suckered by online scams this holiday season
Don’t fall victim to cybercrime when shopping online this holiday season.
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adviceAre your secrets safe on your messenger apps?
Popular online messengers cannot be considered secure enough, yet people continue to use them to exchange private and critical information.
AndroidDo you know what you are sharing with Google?
What does Google know about you and me? Let’s check it with the new “About me” tool.
Fact or Fiction? Reversing your PIN can call the police in an emergency
Do ATMs employ a secret trick to call the police, and should you trust anything written in CAPS?
How to protect yourself from phishing: 10 tips
Sometimes even cybercriminals go fishing. They hunt for a special goldfish — our personal data. So, what can you do to protect yourself from phishing?
Fact or Fiction: Do hotel card keys store guests’ personal data?
The Internet is full of thoughts and perceptions, both true and false. Let’s investigate whether the Internet legend about hotel key cards storing guests’ personal information is fact or fiction.
aircrafts
7 reasons you shouldn’t post your boarding pass online
Think a photo of your boarding pass is innocent when posted online? Think again.
dataVoice as a threat: VoLTE, a new way to compromise mobile networks
Criminals can use VoLTE to cause connection failure, subdue voice calls, or strip the victim’s mobile account of money.
Are we putting our finances at risk with our online shopping and banking?
Nearly every person has ever faced a cyber criminal’s activity; many have become victims of banking frauds. So, how does it happen?
To pay or not to pay – the dilemma of ransomware victims
While FBI recommends victims to pay the ransom, Kaspersky Lab won back the access to the files for dozens of thousands of CoinVault and Bitcryptor victims.
How easy is it for hackers to steal your face?
Cybercriminals hunt for data of all kinds: personal details, photos, videos and even ways that users interact with others; this data is often stolen from social networks. Stolen data is
Mission: Hacking Grandma. Level: piece of cake.
Many would think that the root of all the cyber-evil is tech itself, and once you say no to fancy smart devices, all those spooky cyber-threats should go away. If
2016How to set up Safe Money in Kaspersky Internet Security
With all of the hacks in the news, you may feel scared to shop online. Kaspersky Lab can ease your fears with the Safe Money feature of Kaspersky Internet Security 2016.
87% of Android smartphones are insecure and that’s no joke
Google’s Android OS is a vulnerable system. Developers make it worse by not providing critical patches in time.
appleSecurity Week 42: SHA-1 collisions, a real hack for routers, Android/Security/Gloom
Konstantin Goncharov explains the bottom line of tech giants’ epic fails in the new edition of cybersecurity news digest.
Security Week 41: research censored, Outlook Web Access hacked, subscriber data lost
In this edition of Security Week infosec digest we’ll cover threecases of companies being hacked and data being leaked and companies reacting on the incidents.
Tips and Tricks to Hide from Big Brother’s Watchful Eye
Tips and methods of hacking global surveillance: makeup, special clothes, eyeglasses and more.
Security Week 40: the ‘not-really-a-vulnerability’ in WinRAR, an ancient bug in Firefox, and the oops!-update by Microsoft
I wonder what will happen when there are no more infosec problems. Will our Threatpost news blog convert to a digest of kitty cats? Is this bright future feasible at
Banking Trojans: mobile’s major cyberthreat
Today’s smartphones are full-fledged computers much more powerful than the desktops you used 10 years ago. Your device is very likely to contain data the cybercriminals are after, like banking data.
Security Week 39: XcodeGhost, the leak of D-Link certificates, $1M for bugs in iOS9
Today’s weekly news digest covers the stories about various mistakes in coding, and how they can be used for different purposes, including earning money.